On 10/16/07, Jason Lustig <lustig@brandeis.edu> wrote:
> Looking at my free memory (from TOP) I find
>
> Mem: 2062364k total, 1846696k used, 215668k free, 223324k buffers
> Swap: 2104496k total, 160k used, 2104336k free, 928216k cached
>
> So I don't think that I'm running out of memory total... it seems like it's
> continually trying to do it. Is there a reason why Postgres would be doing
> something without a username or database? Or is that just how autovacuum
> works?
You are NOT running out of memory. Look at the size of your cache and
buffers, together they add up to over 1 Gig of memory. You've got
plenty of free memory.
I'm betting you're running postgresql under an account with a ulimit
setting on your memory.
